Brief Introduction Capital: Mexico Area: total: 1964375sq km National Flowers: dahlia The important Festival: National day: August 16 Population: 97480000 Language: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages. Currency: MXN

Mexico

Geography

Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US.

Administrative divisions

31 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas

Economy – overview

Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector. Recent administrations have expanded competition in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity, natural gas distribution, and airports. Income distribution remains highly unequal. Trade with the US and Canada has tripled since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. Following 6.9% growth in 2000, real GDP fell 0.3% in 2001, recovering to only a plus 1% in 2002, with the US slowdown the principal cause.

Culture and media

Newspaper:

ABC, Crisis, La, Diario de México, Economista, El, Etcétera, Excélsior, Imparables, Jornada, La, México Hoy, News, The .

TV Stations:

CNI - Corporación de Noticias e Información, Eco, XETV, KINT, KLDO.

The place of interest

Square of the Three Cultures

Museo de Arte Moderno

Temple Mayor/Great Temple